Proverbs 4:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:2 : 2 Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,
  • Ps 89:30-32 : 30 If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk; 31 If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep, 32 I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,
  • Prov 8:6-9 : 6 Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips `is' uprightness. 7 For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips `is' wickedness. 8 In righteousness `are' all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse. 9 All of them `are' plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.
  • Job 33:3 : 3 Of the uprightness of my heart `are' my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.
  • Ps 49:1-3 : 1 To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. A Psalm. Hear this, all ye peoples, Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world. 2 Both low and high, together rich and needy. 3 My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart `are' things of understanding.
  • Prov 22:20-21 : 20 Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge? 21 To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee.
  • John 7:16-17 : 16 Jesus answered them and said, `My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me; 17 if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.
  • 1 Tim 4:6 : 6 These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,
  • Titus 1:9 : 9 holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 `And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.
  • 2 Chr 7:19 : 19 and if ye turn back -- ye -- and have forsaken My statutes, and My commands, that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them -- then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,
  • Job 11:4 : 4 And thou sayest, `Pure `is' my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 4:1
    83%

    1 Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.

  • Prov 1:8
    82%

    8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

  • Prov 3:1
    79%

    1 My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,

  • Prov 6:20
    79%

    20 Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

  • Prov 4:3-6
    4 verses
    77%

    3 For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.

    4 And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.

    5 Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.

    6 Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.

  • Prov 4:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life `are' multiplied to thee.

    11 In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness.

  • Prov 2:1
    75%

    1 My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways.

    33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not.

  • Prov 7:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

    2 Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

  • Prov 5:7
    74%

    7 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,

    21 Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.

  • Prov 5:1
    72%

    1 My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,

  • Jer 26:4
    72%

    4 `And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, If ye do not hearken unto Me, to walk in My law, that I set before you,

  • Prov 22:6
    72%

    6 Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

  • Prov 23:26
    72%

    26 Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

  • Prov 22:20
    72%

    20 Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge?

  • Mal 4:4
    72%

    4 Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, That I did command him in Horeb, For all Israel -- statutes and judgments.

  • Prov 4:13
    72%

    13 Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she `is' thy life.

  • Prov 28:4
    72%

    4 Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

    27 Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

  • Ps 78:1
    71%

    1 An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

  • Gen 27:8
    71%

    8 `And now, my son, hearken to my voice, to that which I am commanding thee:

  • Ps 119:8
    71%

    8 Thy statutes I keep, leave me not utterly!

  • Ps 89:30
    71%

    30 If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;

  • Prov 7:24
    71%

    24 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

  • Job 22:22
    71%

    22 Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

  • Deut 4:2
    71%

    2 Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.

  • Ps 119:4
    71%

    4 Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently,

  • Deut 4:5
    71%

    5 `See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as Jehovah my God hath commanded me -- to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;

  • Jer 9:13
    71%

    13 And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it,

  • Ps 119:34
    70%

    34 Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.

  • Prov 3:21
    70%

    21 My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness,

  • Ps 34:11
    70%

    11 Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you.

  • Prov 6:23
    70%

    23 For a lamp `is' the command, And the law a light, And a way of life `are' reproofs of instruction,

  • Prov 3:11
    70%

    11 Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof,

  • Prov 13:14
    70%

    14 The law of the wise `is' a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

  • Ps 119:102
    70%

    102 From Thy judgments I turned not aside, For Thou -- Thou hast directed me.

  • Eph 6:4
    70%

    4 And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

  • Deut 4:14
    70%

    14 `And me hath Jehovah commanded at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it;

  • Prov 1:15
    70%

    15 My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

  • Ps 119:66
    70%

    66 The goodness of reason and knowledge teach me, For in Thy commands I have believed.

  • Jer 16:11
    70%

    11 Then thou hast said unto them: Because that your fathers have forsaken Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, And go after other gods, and serve them, And they bow themselves to them, And Me have forsaken, and My law not kept,